Why can we imagine "three -dimensional substances" from "plane photos"?

The mouse can feel "equivalent" in two -dimensional images and three -dimensional objects!

Apple and actual apple in the image.

We humans can recognize both as the same "apple" without difficulty.

This is because we have the ability to feel the "equivalent" of the image and the object.

At first glance, it looks like a casual ability, but this ability must perform a complex process of applying the visual information obtained from the image to a completely different three -dimensional object.

Therefore, the ability to feel the same was confirmed only in primates and some birds, which are said to have high intelligence.

In other words, the ability to consider two -dimensional and three dimensions to be the same was considered a proof of high intelligence.

On the other hand, mouse, a typical experimental animal, was thought to have the same ability to feel the same as images and objects.

In the intelligence of the mouse, it was considered impossible to extract information from the image and apply it to a real object.

However, this time, the research team at Florida Atlantic University has decided to disagree with this common sense.

The researchers used "mouse instinct".

Mouse has an instinct to actively investigate new existence.

Therefore, the team presented images such as chess pieces and Lego blocks to the mouse, and then put both the same object as the image and another new object in the cage.

As a result, the mouse conducted more aggressive exploration to a completely different new object than the object displayed in the image.

This indicates that the mouse has already created "used" for the same real object as the image, at the same time as "getting used to" in the image.

In addition, the shooting angle, composition, color, brightness, and realism of the target in the image are changed, and even if blur or mosaic is inserted, the effect of "get used to" occurs, and on the contrary, it is shown in the image.He explored the objects of the non -those more aggressively.

These results suggest that mice also have the ability to recognize the "equivalence" of images and objects (the ability to generalize images and apply them to objects).

What is worrisome is the state of the brain when you feel equal.

What kind of circuit is two -dimensional and three -dimensional tied?